Blogging with My Vacation

I have recently been looking into how to best link travel journals on My Vacation to blog sites.  It would seem that the two biggest players are Blogger and Wordpress.  However, there is a new kid on the block (well a year old anyway) called Posterous that allows you to easily create a free blog.  The novel feature of this site is that it allows you to send emails to your blog, which then get converted into blog articles.

This means that here and now you can post your travel journals from My Vacation using the Email option and create your own blog post.  See how I have applied this to the example vacation from the app on a blog I created in Posterous.  Notice I have map links to each photo, but this is a new My Vacation feature yet to be released.  You can automatically set up your account to forward blog posts onto Wordpress or Blogger, as well as other sites.  Try for yourself, and let me know if you post anything via My Vacation!

Two things to point out:

• These photos were what the app terms as small (S) images.  Sending too many photos at once via email doesn't work too well.  Don't worry - I am looking at the API options for Posterous which will allow me to send each image, one by one to the site rather than all in one email.  
• Secondly, the email you send from the app only allows attachments to be added to the end of the message.  This is why you see the photos at the end of the blog, so some minor editing would required to put the photos in their correct place.

Any feedback on how to go forward with this will be appreciated.

Take care,

Update on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 3:54PM by Tony Short

Since this article was posted My Vacation and My Vacation HD now allow you to publish straight to Blogger and Wordpress!

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